nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
We were delighted to be part of the BBC Countryfile ‘Woodland Extravaganza’ programme broadcast on 19th April. The work of our charity, including the newly-opened new Sylva Wood Centre, featured alongside many of our friends and partners across the woodland, forestry and wood sectors.
We are excited to be featuring in the BBC One programme Countryfile this coming Sunday at 19:00.
Join Sylva’s education manager Jen Hurst for a Woodland to Wood activity for families at the Oxfordshire Goes Wild! event:- this Saturday at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
In our second feature on this story, Sylva’s CEO talks to James Tyler of Tyler Hardwoods Ltd about an exicting new home-grown hardwood product to be installed at the Sylva Wood Centre. The thermally-modified hardwood cladding will be used on the first building at the Sylva Wood Centre. The ash and sycamore cladding has been supplied by Tyler Hardwoods, sourced from woodlands in the south-west of Britain. The development of the product and its installation at the Sylva Wood Centre is supported by Grown in Britain.
Earlier this week the first tenants and users who will move into the Sylva Wood Centre met together for the first time. This was a major milestone for us at Sylva and it was exciting to witness new acquitances made, and even more so when talk of collaboration and sharing soon echoed around the building site.
Congratulations to Dr Kirsty Monk, our first Oxford-Sylva scholar (2010-14), who passed her DPhil viva voce last week!
This week we took delivery of a brand new product sourced from British forests. The thermally-modified hardwood cladding will be used on the first building at the Sylva Wood Centre.
Join Sylva’s Jen Hurst and Master Craftsman Philip Koomen for a ‘forest to furniture’ talk and tour of the stunning wood craft exhibition on 21st March at the River and Rowing Museum.
Fifteen environmental educators, forest school leaders and teachers met with the Sylva team to develop an innovative follow-on project to OneOak – due to be launched nationally in September 2015.
Welcome to Sylva’s latest enews. We start with an apology for last week’s complete outage of online services. Due to a problem with our server hosting the entire suite of websites and databases went offline for several days. This also affected our enews, which was not sent out last Friday. On a more positive note…